RR Sports- Air suspension failures

[frankc]

Bought the range rover sport new in march 2008 and had no problems until the car went in for its first service on 19th dec 2008. A week later the air suspension became faulty and the car was recovered to the local dealer who had carried out the service in aberdeen. Got the car back a few days later after dealership replaced one of the four height sensors. On the way to an appointment Friday afternoon the cars air suspension became faulty again resulting in the car being recovered to dealership.

Is this part and parcel of RR Sport ownership or should I be looking for better service from landrover to resolve this problem?

Cheers

FC

[Monza Phil]

Part of it I'm afraid....

[PhilCerbera]

Friend of mine has a RRS TDV8 bought new in March 08. It let him down completely during the first week, 3 times, even after it had been back to the dealers - an electrical problem which was eventually fixed. The a sensor in the air suspension failed and was fixed at the second attempt (after failing twice). Last week at 19k miles it went for its first service and needed new discs/pads! Plus they went on to fix more of the air suspension under warranty. He's looking forward to getting back in an S-Class.

[frankc]

Will let them have 1 more go at fixing said problem, if that fails it will be trading standards people and solicitors. Already started looking at a few potential replacement's for the RRS and sadly none will be a Landrover product.

Edited by frankc on Sunday 25th January 21:06

[superlightr]

think you are over reacting. New car fine for 9 mths, then a fault which has to be fixed twice. Why are you even thinking of TS and solicitors at this stage?

Not unusual for parts to need fixing on any make of a car imho. So long as its done quickly/efficently and there arent too many in any given period of time thats part of how a car works surly? some parts will fail from time to time.

[frankc]

I can assure you being in a Range Rover Sport when the air suspension goes tits up at 70 mph is no barrel of laughs, other owners have reported rear tyres being punctured and loss of control. A bit of digging on the internet has revealed this is not just a few isolated cars that are affected. Prepared to let them have another go at fixing the fault but there must come a point when you draw a line in the sand and say enoughs enough before I, or god forbid another vehicle are involved in an accident because of this issue.

[GKP]

As long as you don't go fitting overlarge wheels and tyres to the RR Sport, you won't have any rubbing/puncture issues if the car goes down onto it's bumpstops.

[Noogly]

The newer RR air suspension tends to stay up better than the old ones did if a fault is detected.
I had a fault on an L322 and it just locked at normal height until it was fixed. Classic and P38s tended to adjust everything downwards until it levelled out, which meant at a fault the good springs deflated to match the sensor that was broken!
I had a height sensor go on a classic some years ago, had to drive home 200 miles on the bump stops...
Probably shouldn't have but it was going home from holiday and Sunday afternoon. It actually handled fine on smooth roads, but shook fillings loose on poor ones!

I agree that brand new cars should be fault free, on the other hand life often isn't like that and I can't imagine an air susp fault, short of a burst spring, that would actually be dangerous. At the worst you get plenty of warning to slow down, can't see how tyres could be affected.

Edited by Noogly on Monday 26th January 13:29